Wowza - that's some photoperiod! I've recently been increasing my hours also - although from a much lower level. I believe it was A. Fleischmann who mentioned something about villosa / ascendens doing poorly in his winter greenhouse because the plants want more hours of light ..... Some of my plants are edging toward looking a bit better recently - maybe the hours are helping...i have recently gone back to my summer photoperiod, so for the last couple weeks they have been 18/6, before that they were at 14/10 or maybe 12/12
Hmmm - some of mine may be the same distance - but considering the lights, your's are getting a much higher intensity. IIRC, NaN has some growing outside on his deck...same pots, same media... distance to light is ummm they are on my top rack so i would say 10-12" would be a good estimate.
Daily top watering?? Wow - I'm just finishing doing my weekly top watering - hmmmmm Very helpful - thank you sir....umm monthy trichoderma... ummm humidity is 70-80%ish, temps are 60ish at the moment, constant gentle airflow... daily top waterings
Wow, that is just incredible! I think those are the most vigorous-looking South American dews I've that are being grown indoors in the US.
I'm flat-out embarrassed at my attempts to grow these spcs.
.....With the way they're growing, I wouldn't be shocked to see you post about a flower stalk.... Your pics also do an excellent job of highlighting some of the differences between the species - much easier than differentiating ascendens & graomo...
Within a few days after you posted this, a Brazilian supported your observations over on CPUK (seems they found a new location for D. graomo)....and when you have a graomo and ascendens side by side they definitely have their diffs, one big thing I notice is the underside of the newly forming leaf is much more pubescent on graomo
D. ascendens leaves seem more linear and have a longer petiole region whereas the graomo seem more eliptical with a very short petiole
Samoied said:Yes, the underside of the D.G leaves are very hairy. The new leaf shoots bear hairs with a silver color very light-reflexive that resembles very much the plants of some populations of D. tomentosa. Other than that, the leaves seems to be smaller, more fleshy and bear a smaller petiole than D. ascendens. The tip of the leaves seems to be more "pointy" too.
Within a few days after you posted this, a Brazilian supported your observations over on CPUK (seems they found a new location for D. graomo).